From: Peter Stephenson <pws@ibmth.df.unipi.it>
To: zsh-users@sunsite.auc.dk
Subject: Re: Why can't I set PS1?
Date: Mon, 05 Jul 1999 09:52:09 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <9907050752.AA09613@ibmth.df.unipi.it> (raw)
In-Reply-To: "Wolfgang Hukriede"'s message of "Sun, 04 Jul 1999 21:12:11 DFT." <199907041912.VAA06622@sally.ifm.uni-kiel.de>
Wolfgang Hukriede wrote:
> Why can't I set PS1, eg:
>
> hukriede@pfiesteria:/home/hukriede > PS1=xxx
> hukriede@pfiesteria:/home/hukriede > echo $PS1
> %n@%m:/home/hukriede >
> hukriede@pfiesteria:/home/hukriede >
It may be the same problem someone else had a couple of weeks ago. On some
system, the function precmd is set to restore the prompt before every
single command, which is lunacy. You can probably just `unfunction precmd'
and set your own prompt, if that's the problem.
--
Peter Stephenson <pws@ibmth.df.unipi.it> Tel: +39 050 844536
WWW: http://www.ifh.de/~pws/
Dipartimento di Fisica, Via Buonarroti 2, 56127 Pisa, Italy
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1999-07-05 8:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-07-04 19:12 Wolfgang Hukriede
1999-07-05 7:52 ` Peter Stephenson [this message]
1999-07-05 18:47 Wolfgang Hukriede
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